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(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will host top congressional leaders at the White House Tuesday as he and fellow Democrats remain at odds with House Republicans over aid to Ukraine and government funding with a partial shutdown deadline just days away. The “Big 4” leaders sitting down with the president are House Speaker Mike Johnson, […]
(HOUSTON) — Houston authorities released graphic security and police body camera footage Monday of the Feb. 11 shooting inside Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. The videos show the suspect, Genesse Ivonne Moreno, walking into the house of worship and holding her 7-year-old son’s hand while she carried an assault-style rifle and a bag that investigators said […]
(WASHINGTON) — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued to halt the Kroger and Albertsons merger, according to court documents filed in federal court. The merger would represent two of the largest grocery store chains in the United States combining forces. Kroger announced that it intended to acquire Albertsons for $24.6 billion in October 2022, […]
On Tuesday, February 27, at 10 p.m. ET, FX reveals the first two episodes in its epic adaptation of James Clavell‘s bestselling novel Shōgun. Hiroyuki Sanada, a former child star turned legendary Japanese actor, stars in and produces the 10-episode series. He plays Lord Yoshii Toranaga, who is struggling to keep his legacy — and himself — alive […]
On this day in Black history, February 27: — In 1872, Charlotte E. Ray graduated from Howard University Law School, making her the first Black woman to graduate from a law school. Two months later she became the first Black woman to formally practice law in the United States. — In 1883, William B. Purvis […]
Lisette Morales McCabe/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New home sales ticked up in January, despite a twin burden imposed by elevated mortgage rates and expensive housing prices, according to U.S. Census data released on Monday. Sales of new single-family homes rose 1.8% in January compared to the previous year, data showed. The survey found […]
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants are appealing their $464 million civil fraud case. In a filing Monday, the defendants signaled their plans to appeal the ruling to New York’s Appellate Division, First Department. “This appeal is taken from each and every part of the Order […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday asked a judge to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump, who is charged in New York with falsifying business records related to hush money he paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is already under a limited […]
(WASHINGTON) — No one will be reprimanded for keeping Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospital stays a secret — including the secretary himself or his chief of staff — after an internal Pentagon review of the matter concluded there was no indication of “ill intent or an attempt to obfuscate” the situation. An unclassifiedhttps://media.defense.gov/2024/Feb/26/2003400135/-1/-1/1/UNCLASSIFIED-S… text to […]
(WASHINGTON) — An active-duty airman has died after authorities say he set himself on fire Sunday outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., in what he described as “an extreme act of protest” over the Israel-Hamas war. The man was identified by the Metropolitan Police Department as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell of San Antonio. The Air […]
